McCain Asks YouTube to Ignore DMCA Claims

After a slew of political ads from the McCain-Palin campaign were taken down from YouTube because of copyright holder DMCA complaints, the campaign sent Electronic Frontier Foundation says McCain is asking for special treatment. Fred von Lohmann, who specializes in copyright law for the EFF, was quick to point out, “It assumes that YouTube should prioritize the campaigns' fair use rights, rather than those of the rest of us. That seems precisely backwards, since the most exciting new possibilities on YouTube are for amateur political expression by the voters themselves. After all, the campaigns have no trouble getting the same ads out on television and radio, options not available to most YouTubers.”

Another interesting event is the recent passage and signing of the heavily RIAA-backed and MPAA-backed